A blog about digital rhetoric that asks the burning questions about electronic bureaucracy and institutional subversion on the Internet.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Conscience by Committee

When it comes to web design and compatibility with social media platforms, the website of the Senate Arms Services Committee is one of the most obviously retro among federal .gov websites, but its recently released "torture report" has been widely circulated on the Internet. Additional documents point to a number of relevant "web links" that show how revelations about torture perpetuated by the United States government in the name of gathering intelligence information through extreme interrogation methods has been justified throughout the whole chain of command.